> No more offices. No more weekly happy hours. Those sound like benefits to many. > They can now depress salaries even further because they have a wider pool

> No more offices. No more weekly happy hours. Those sound like benefits to many. > They can now depress salaries even further because they have a wider pool from which to choose. This is only a negative for people who were already making absurdly high incomes in HCOL areas. For many people away from the coasts, salaries are now higher because they have access to the kinds of jobs and companies they didn’t before. > Don't need to bother with those pesky things called relationships because your boss from 500 miles away can lay off your ass without breaking a sweat. Has this every not been the case? Besides, there are only two kinds of layoffs. Massive ones that do not take performance into account, and rarely take input from your direct manager about who is going and who is staying. On the other hand, for layoffs in which performance is taken into account, I’m sure many prefer the criteria to be more about their work than how chummy they are with the boss and how well they politick. I can see how these might be disadvantages for a certain kind of worker, but for other kinds they are huge wins.